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Henry Waldgrave Stuart
1870–1951
A philosopher of value and education, he helped shape the early identity of Stanford’s philosophy department while writing in the pragmatic tradition of the early 20th century. His work connects big ideas about judgment, interests, and learning to everyday human experience.
1 Audiobook
Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
by John Dewey, Boyd Henry Bode, Harold Chapman Brown, Horace Meyer Kallen, George H. Mead, Addison Webster Moore, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts
About the author
Born in Oakland, California, on December 1, 1870, Henry Waldgrave Stuart studied at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his BA in 1893. He later did graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he moved from economics into philosophy.
Stuart became a leading figure in philosophy at Stanford University and is remembered as the founder of Stanford’s philosophy department. His surviving papers at Stanford reflect his long academic career, and reference sources describe him as a professor emeritus of philosophy.
As a writer, Stuart is associated with American pragmatism and with discussions of value, logic, and education. He contributed essays such as "Valuation as a Logical Process" and also appeared among the contributors to Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude. He died in 1951.